Record Number: 30283

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'His reading in 1938 and 1939 had been mainly of memoirs and autobiographies: Boswell, Greville, Logan Pearsall Smith's Unforgotten Years, Siegfried Sassoon's The Old Century, Somerset Maugham's The Summing-Up ("a very honest confession of faith").'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

Between Jan 1938 and Dec 1939

Country:

Canada

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

John Buchan

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

26 Aug 1875

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Governor General of Canada

Religion:

Church of Scotland

Country of Origin:

Scotland

Country of Experience:

Canada

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

James Boswell

Title:

?Life of Johnson

Genre:

Biography

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

30283

Source:

Print

Author:

Janet Adam Smith

Editor:

n/a

Title:

John Buchan: A Biography

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1965

Vol:

n/a

Page:

462

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Janet Adam Smith, John Buchan: A Biography, (London, 1965), p. 462, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=30283, accessed: 22 November 2024

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Additional Comments:

Buchan read memoirs and biographies while working on his own memoirs.